Quotes About I Love Lucy

The big three television companies (CBS, ABC, and NBC) measured their audiences in tens of millions: when CBS broadcast the episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy had a baby to coincide with the actress who played Lucy, Lucille Ball, also having a baby, on January 19, 1953, 68.8 percent of the country's television sets were tuned in, a far higher proportion than were tuned in to Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the following day.

As she won fame playing Ethel Mertz, she perceived all of her theater work not as an end in itself, let alone the fulfillment of a childhood dream, but solely as preparation for I Love Lucy. She never really could savor the fact that, while no Broadway legend, she had become a respected and regularly employed working actress.

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

It's amazing, the quality of good work that happened in the fifties when a series would have to turn out 30-some episodes a season - it's amazing that 'I Love Lucy' was as good as it was!

Now I realize that sliding underneath a table in a restaurant is somewhat of an I Love Lucy response to a crisis, but once I'm down on the floor I can't very well reappear without giving some thought as to how I'm going to accomplish it.

Why does 'I Love Lucy' still make people laugh? Because she's a specific character who has real reactions.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to the point where we are sitting here.

I was never in an episode of I LOVE LUCY!

watching "I Love Lucy" reruns on TV Land–now there was a wacko, that Lucy woman–and